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The Certified Equity Professional Institute (CEPI) at Santa Clara University offers a certificate for professionals in equity compensation. Learn more about the CEPI and the certification process on its Web site.

Dave McLean, the founder of San Francisco's Magnolia Brewing, is someone that you might have thought of as a good candidate to sell his business to an ESOP. Instead, the company ran into difficulties and ended up in Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in 2015, but the story does not end there.

The new bill makes a number of changes in employee benefit plan law intended to simplify plan operations. The two most significant concern the definition of highly compensated employees and the participation requirements for 401(k) plans.

In February 26, the City Council of Berkeley, California, voted to support the development of worker cooperatives. The ordinance gives cooperatives a preference in securing city contracts, expands the small-business loan fund to cover cooperatives, and provides technical assistance.

Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway finalized its purchase of the Omaha World-Herald on December 23. The former owners, 275 current and former employees as well as the Peter Kiewet Foundation, approved the sale by what the World-Herald described as an "overwhelming" vote.

Warren Buffet, CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, announced on November 30 that his company would buy the Omaha World-Herald Company, currently 80% owned by its employees, for $150 million

Today, Sen. Bernie Sanders released a position paper, Corporate Accountability and Democracy, that begins with the words “We will give workers an ownership stake in the companies they work for.”

The Washington Post reported on May 28 that Sen.

The Fellowship program of the School of Labor and Management Relations at Rutgers University held its mid-year fellows workshop in honor of Louis O. Kelso. The workshop was funded by John Menke of Menke Associates.

The Beyster Institute at the Rady School of Management and Rutgers University are sponsoring five research fellowships in employee ownership.